Jammu Sep 1, : Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday inaugurated the resumption of the balance works of Tawi Barrage.Sinha said that the reopening of Tawi Barrage is a significant event for Jammu city.
The ambitious construction project, which has been held up for nearly 10 years, will improve the beauty of the landscape, and increase the tourist potential of the city of temples, and will also facilitate the creation of places to relax for the people The Lieutenant.Governor said.
The initiative today is component of the government’s efforts to create urban centres as engine of economic growth, and to make the cities economically and ecologically resilient, he said.
The upgraded and sturdy infrastructure will be able to cater to tourists as well as the people living in the area, making citizens part of the solution in the protection and improvement of the water bodies, Sinha added.
The Governor noted that the legacy of delays to projects in J&K has hurt the economic development of J&K and prevented people from accessing from basic services The Governor’s Lt stated that delays to projects that were previously thought to be a normal is now something of the past.
The Union Territory has achieved new milestones in the implementation of projects.
While the number of projects completed was 9,229 in 2018-19.However, more than 50,000 projects were finished in 2021-22, which is the most significant five-fold growth, Sinha said.
The planned Tawi Barrage will create a reservoir of 1.41 million cubic meters.It is an automatic and manual-operated barrage gated by an SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system.The project is expected to be operational in mid-July 2023.
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